Hydraulic separating mechanism



June 15 1926.

1,588,689 J. B. ARPIN HYDRAULIC SEPARATING MEGHANISM Filed July 25, 1922 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 MMU June- 15 1926. l 1,588,689

. J. B. ARPIN HYDRAULIC SEPARATING MEGHANISM Filed July 25, 9272 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 June l5 ,1926. 1,588,689

J. B. ARPIN HYDRAULIC SEPARATING MECHANISM Filed July 25. 1922 s sheets-sheet s "Sii- 1:] y Ay Patented June 15, 1926I UNITED STATES vnfoIIN n. ARrIN, 'or WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WISCONSIN.

l HYDRAULIC SEPARATING MECHANISM.

Appncation med Iuiy 25;

This invention relates to that class of devices which are used to'separate a mixture of materials into several parts according to the coarseness and heaviness of the particles. ln many such devices, the separation is effected by means of a stream of water in a flume. lIt is an object of the present inventionA to afford such a separation where the supply of water is too'limited to make it possible t0 use a flume.V

It is a further object of this invention to provide means for separating coke from ashes by means of a 'tank and a pump driven circulating system causing a stream of water across the tank. K

It is a further `object of this invention to provide means'whereby a supply of ashes, dumped intermittently intoy a hopper, shall be converted into a wide steady stream'of ashes delivered to the apparatus.

It is a further object of this invention ty providemeans for rapidly and effectively separating'the reclaimed coke from the water which has been used in treating the ashes.

, It is afurther object of this invention toy provide a simple andeifective device for adjusting the vslope and the degree' of oscillation of the sieves. A

Other and further important objects of this invention will bey apparent from the drawings and specification.

The invention (in a preferred form) is illustrated on the drawings and hereinafter more fully described.

On the drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan View of the apparatus.

Figure 2 is a view of the apparatus partly in side elevation and partly in section upon the line 2-2 of Figure 1. Y

Figure 3 is a section upon the line 3 3 of Figure 2. e

Figure 4L is a section upon the line 4.--4 of Figure 2. L s Figure 5 is a section upon the line 5--5 of Figure 2. i Figure 6 is a section upon the line 6-6 of Figure 2.

Figure 7 is an enlarged detail view showing the mechanical connections adjacent one end of one of the sieves.

As shown on the drawings:

The apparatus has a hopper 10 intowhich the ashes to be separated are dumped. This hopper delivers into a trough 11 which con- 1922.. 'semi No. 577,810.

at one side of the screw conveyor, the lefthand sidev asshown in Figures 1 and 2, eX- tends to its full height, but on the other side 1t has an oblique upper edge descending from vtains a screw conveyor 12. The trough 11 approximately'full height at the hopper 10 tothe level of the lbottom of the screw conveyor at the other end of the trough. f The.

end wall 13' of the trough extends to the full height of the left-hand side wallv at the end toward which'the conveyor moves the ashes.

At the other end, the trough has no end wall in order that the hopper 10v may deliver into it.v j

Y Below' the conveyor and trough is a receptacle 14 which isv inthe form of a long box having a number of bins 15 in the bot'- tom thereof. Each of the bins tapers downward and ends in a delivery spout 16. `These spouts `deliver onto a belt'conveyor 17. Thisv conveyor is mounted upon a pair of rollers 18 and 19 so that its upper side moves'toward the right Figures'l andr 2. One of Y these rollers is driven by a sprocket chain 2O which is connected'by'intermediate con! nections,"which willbe described below, to

an electric motor 21.v yThe belt 17carries the material from beneath'the spo'uts 16 and de# livers it v.into al tank 22. i This tankv is lled with water to va height above the outlet 23.y This outlet is connected by a funnel 24k and a pipe 25 to the suction lside of a pump 26. Any form of pump may be used but a centrifugal pump is preferred' as it is-intended to handlea mixture of water and'coke'. The pump is driven by a belt 27 connected tov any desired source of power.

The delivery side of thepump is connected by a rpipe 28 to a dowirturnecl spout 29 which delivers lonto a' traveling screen130-l One end" of this screen is located within aV boX 31 at the left of the bins 15 as seen in Figures 1 and 2. This boX haszno'bottomr but at the end thereof nearest the spout 29 it yis provided' with an apron `32 to guide the returning water.' Above the traveling screen 30' a smaller apron 33 is provided which preventsthe water coming from the spout 29 from splashing over the right-hand end of the traveling screen y' 30 as seen in Figure 3. At thisv end, thescreen passes around a lroller land at vthe other end it passes around a second roller (not shown). At the last-named end', it delivers to any suitable storage place for` the coke.

l/Vithin the tank 22, below and to the right as shown in Figures 1 and 2, of the belt conveyor 17 is located a sifting apparatus. This includes a pair of oscillating screens 36 and 37, each of which is mounted upon swinging levers. The left-hand one of these levers, as shown in Figure 2, isspivoted at 38 to the side wall of the tank. Tts lower end is provided with a pin which is received in any one of a series of holes 39 in theflange 40 of the frame of the screen 36. The positio-n of the attachment of the lever to the screen may bevaried by placing this pinin any one ofthe holes 39. A wider flange 41 eX- tendsupward from the screen and apivotal connection 42 extends through this wider flange and the lever. The same connection also goes through a pitman 43 and a link 44.

` The link 44 is connectedat its other end by a pivotal connection 45 which also goes through the wide flange 41 to a similar lever pivoted to the side wall of the tank at 50.

' This lever has a series ofr holes 45 and the of the series 45 and 46.

flange 40 of the frame of the screen has a series of holes 46. This lever and the 'screen are adjustably connected by inserting a pin 47 in any selected pair of holes one in each These holes aie made large enough to carefor all lost motion.

The pitman 43 is connected to an eccentric 51 which is driven by a sprocket chain 52 from shaft 53,k ,This shaft crosses the tank 22 and'at its opposite side, the lower side in Figure 1, drives the sprocket chain 20 for ruiming the belt conveyor 17. The shaft 53 in its turn is driven by a sprocket chain 54 which is directly connected to the motor 21. F rom the eccentric 51 a shaft 55 goes across the tank to a similar eccentric upon the opposite side which works through similar levers Vto oscillate the other sideof the screen so thatV the two sides are moved together` Y tank at 57 and supplied with similar means for adjustably-connecting it to the screen 37. The other end of the screen-37 is supported by a lever pivoted to the side of the tank at 58 and connected to the screen in the way already described in connection with the lever pivoted at 38. Similar levers are providedfor the other side of the screen. v

The tank is supplied with a shelf 60 which is supported by a lever 61 at each endthereof. These levers are provided with a plurality of holes 62 by which the height of the shelf 60 may. be adjusted. A pin projecting from the side kof the tank may be engaged in any one of'these holes. The position of the shelf 60 may be altered horizontally by tilting the lever 61 about the pin. Preferably, the engagement between the lever and the side of the tank has suiiicient friction to hold the shelf in the position selected but, if desired, the pin may be supplied with a locking nut. lVhen the proper position of the screen 36 has been determined, the shelf 60 is so adjusted that it is slightly below the down-stream end of the screen 36 and projects a little way under this end even when the screen is in its most remote position as itswings.

A shelf 63 similarly supportedl at'each end by a lever 64 adjustably secured: in the same way to the side of the tank is provided adjacent to and slightly above the up-streain end of the'screen 37. V

The portion of the tank 22contai-ningthe tank turns sharply upwards and contains a` conveyor 74 of the bucket type by vwhich the material is lifted above the height of the water and delivered to any desired point.

Art the sideof. the tank adjacent the outlet 23, the top of the'end wall 'of the ,tank is turned down asv illustrated at 75 so that the free surface of the water does not extend horizontally to the right as shown in Figure 2 as far as the outlet.

In the operation of the devices, ashes are delivered intermittently, for exanipleby cart loads, to the hopper 10. Descending this hopper, it is received in the trough 11 and moved toward the right in Figure 4'by the conveyor 12.' TWhen the supply of ashes is enough to iill the space between the turns of this conveyor high, thek ashes will fall over. the edge of the trough 11 near the hopper 10 of the conveyor. ashes diiniiiishes, so that the space between the turns ofthe screw conveyor is not filled so high, the ashes must travel further in order to pass over the edge of the trough, llfhen the supply of ashes is scanty'so that the space between the turns of the conveyor is nearly empty, the ashes must travel over the whole length'ofthe trough 11 before it emerges. Tn each of these cases` theportion ofthe ashes which is not above the to-p of the side of the trough 11 is carried further to the right in Figure 4 and so is brought above the top of some lower part of the side of the trough. Tn this way, 'the intermittent delivery of ashes into the hopper is converted into a uniformly distributed delivery inthe box 14 above the bins.

The restricted outlets 16 of the-bins per- Ars the supply ofv mit them to become partly lilled -With ashesv so that, When-the delivery from the trough 1l is slower or ceases, the ashes stored up in the bins '-,vill continue to flow out from the outlets 16 and,v.vhen the delivery from the trough 1l is more rapid than the llovv out of the spouts 16, the storage capacity of the upper and larger portions of the bins l5 or the storage capacity of the rectangular receiver 14 will accommodatefthe surplus. In this Way, a steady flow of ashes out of the spouts unto the belt 17 is obtained. Gn the belt 17, the several streams of ashes from the spouts 16 spread out and mingle and then fall from the delivery end of this belt into the water in the tank in a Wide sheet of fairly uniform thickness.

The extremely fine and light portions of lthe ashes will float upon the surface ofthe Water and be moved bythe current to the right in Figure 2. The most of the ashes vill be received uponV the screen 36. The oscillation of this screen by the pitman 43 assists the current in moving the ashes vtoward the right in lligure 2. In order that this motion shall not be too rapid, the adjustment of the screen 36 is preferably such that it slopes upward and down-stream but the holes and 46 are preferably ext-ended far enough to enable the screen to be hori- Zontal or even to slope down and downstream, if desired. The slope of the screen is adjuster accor-ding to the characteristics of the ashes being treated.

As the screen is oscillated, all tendency of the flexible material of the screen itself to uckle under the thrust from the pitman is circumvented by the reinforcing action of the links 44. Also theV adjustment by means of the holes 39 enables the attachment of the lever pivoted at 88 to the screen to strictly correspond to the adjustment selected in placing the pin 47 in the holes 45 and 46 so that no distortion of the screen need be produced when changing the adjustment.

The ashes after they have passed over the screen 36 are received upon the shelf 60.

Vscillating motion of the screen 36 cannot impart a thrust to the ashes suliicient to di" fe any particles of them over the entire Width of the shelf GO so that When the ashes reach the down-stream edge of the shelf 60,

they are moving under the influence of the current alone. The shelf does, however, have a small down-stream slope from edge to edge so that gravity can slightly assist the action of the current.

When the material reaches the dovvnstream edge of the shelf 60, it falls through the moving Water. The heavier portions of this material Will fall more rapidly than the lighter portions. The lighter portions, therefore will becarried ldown-stream farlther during their fall than are the heavier portions. They Will therefore arrive at the shelf 63 While theheavier portions rWill 'pass by this shelf and descend to. the bottom of the tank. rlhe material sifted out .by the screen 36 also falls throrghv the Water and descends to the bottom of the tank. e F rom the'shelf 63, the material passes in a similar Way over the screen 37 and Whatever line material has notv already .been sifted out will be removed by this screen and vvill join the other material at the bottom of the tank. .v i'

The material accumulated at lthe bottom of the tank consists, therefore, of all particles of ashes, fine enough to pass through the screens 35 and 37 or heavy enough to fall past the shelf 68. :In ashes ofthe ordinary composition, this Would mean that the dust and the clinker arrive at the bottom of the tank While the coke arrives at the outlet 23, the dust, of course, being in the form of mud because it has been mingled ,With

the Water. The mud and clinker are removed by the screw conveyor 7 0 and deliv rive at this point Without having been beloW the surface of the Water and so Without having been passed over the screens 36 and 37. The material which arrives at the Wall 75 Willbe sucked into the outlet 23 by the current and delivered along With the material which is passed over the screens 36 and 37 to the pump 26. This material Will consist almost ventirely of coke but Will have With it a smallIportion of fine dust Which by the time it is delivered from the pump Will have been thoroughly mingled With Waterl andso Will no longer tend to oat.

This mixture is delivered upon the screeny 30 Which preferably is of finer mesh than the screens 36 and 37. As the mixture emerges from the spout 29, no matter how much splashing results, none of 1t Will pass around the end of the screen 3() but it Will all be strained thereby because the bevel plate 33 receives all the splashes which tend in this directionand returns them onto the screen.

The dust and avery small percentageof coke Will pass through this screen and be returned by the apron 32 to the tank Where the dust Will novv promptly descend to the bottom but the coke will descend much more slowly and most of it Vvvill arrive at the upper side of the screen 36 Where it Will mingle With the newly arriving supply of untreated ashes. The screen 30 Will deliver the' redeemed coke to Whatever receptacle is pro- Y vided for it.

I am aware that numerous details of construction may be varied through a Wide range Without departing from the principles of thisinvention7 and I therefore do not purpose limiting the patent granted otherwise than necessitated by the prior art.

I claim as my invention:

In a device of the class described7 a hop per shaped tank, a centrifugal pump having its inlet connected to one-side of said tank, a screen adjacentthe other side of tfhe tank adapted to receive the discharge from said pump, means for returning water passing through the screen to said tank, means for introducing material to be separated Vinto the tank on the same side as said screen and means Withinthe tank for restricting the vfall of such material through the Water to treated.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name.

JOHN B. Aarem. 

